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All I see is Terrance and Phillip heads.
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Its stuck with a white spining loading wheel
This means that our video feed is being blocked from the player.

1. If you have any Ad-Blocker, Virus Protection, or Firewall software it may be blocking the flash player from loading.
   Try turning them off and see if that fixes the problem. If the flash player loads when they are turned off, consult that software's help/support to see how you can prevent it from blocking the flash player.
   
   
2. If you have a firewall, try opening the RTMP ports.
   This is how our episode video files are streamed. See http://rtmpy.org/wiki/RTMP to learn about RTMP ports.
   Here is a list of some of the ports to open:
   1935
   443
   80

All I see is black.
This means that the video player is not able to establish a secure connection.

1. Consult your browser, firewall, and antivirus software information for any Privacy settings that enable private browsing. Private browsing blocks our player from being able to determine if your watching from a trusted site. These features need to be disabled in order to allow the player to function correctiy

The Episode player only shows commercial and no South Park.
This means that probably your firewall is blocking the Episode video files from streaming to the player.
They are normally streamed through RTMP ports. These are different from normal website ports (HTTP 80 & 8080). Opening up these ports in your firewall should allow the video to play.
You can Learn about them here: http://rtmpy.org/wiki/RTMP
Here is a list of some of the ports to open:
1935
443
80

I live outside the United States, why can't I watch Full episodes?
Due to contractual obligations we are not allowed to stream full episodes to certain countries.
Right now we are in the process of making that a possibility through you local south park broadcast affiliate. These countries or territories include: The United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, France, and the Scandinavian countries.
Active affiliate sites are:
UK & Ireland: www.southparkstudios.co.uk
Germany: www.southpark.de
Netherlands: www.southpark.nl
Norway: www.southparkstudios.no
Sweden: www.southparkstudios.se
Finland: www.southparkstudios.fi
Denmark: www.southparkstudios.dk


I can't play the newest episodes?
Due to contractual obligations we can release an episode for one week on our website, and then it will be re-released on the website at a later date.

The episode says that it will be on at this date, but I still don't see it!
The website releases episodes based on Pacific Coast Time (PST)

Sorry for the late reply but:

I'm not very tech savvy, and with the death of my gaming computer 2 years ago (rest in peace) I've been sharing this old Vaio laptop with my dad.
I don't know it exact age since its a gift from a friend of a friend of my fathers but I can tell you this things pretty ancient.
I use the latest Mozilla Fire Fox.
Have Norton Internet Security as anti-virus
Uh as far as pop up blocker is concerned it's just the standard Mozilla settings, I have my firewall set to allow most non threatening things.

If it helps I can't watch any Comedy Central videos at all not even.....Secret Girlfriend

Sorry for the vagueness and lack of detail
I appreciate the help and effort!

I'm also having trouble playing episodes. Clips however play perfectly fine. Here are my specs

OS: Windows XP Professional 64-Bit SP2
Browsers: FF 3.0.15, IE7
Flash Version: 10.0.22.87
Connection Speed: FiOs (hi-speed)
Firewall / Virus Protection/ Ad-Blockers: No Firewall/ Avast! Antivirus/ Adblock Plus 1.0.2
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA

My problem is with firefox, full eps do not load in firefox. It just shows a blue sad face emoticon like this : (

For some reason they work fine in IE, but I hate using IE and just knowing that people are getting it to work in firefox makes me upset that I can't.

Also, I've disabled pop-up blocking, I've tried disabling my ad-blocker, and I've even disabled my antivirus and they still don't work in firefox.

: ( indeed

So I try to watch the full episodes and it just comes up with : ( any reason?

Hey guys, there was probably a server error for the videos over that weekend. Are you guys still having this problem?

I'm getting this error when I go to the clip section: http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/4932/erroroi.jpg

i just reinstalled xp & was getting the spinny thing even w/ my firewall and pop-up blocker disabled.

just monkeying around, i enabled private-browsing (i'm using Firefox) and it worked.

/shrug

if the fixes listed don't work, try that & maybe it'll work

oh, & it was only in firefox i had the issue, IE8 was working fine once i updated flash and installed the add-on.

I can't watch episodes in HD .....It says HD is turned off....Could you tell me how to turn the HD on or I am convicted to low quality stream ..?...
I mean, I used to watch it in HD later despite the connection speed...

OS: Mac OS X 10.5.8
Browser(s): Safari 4.04
Flash Version: 10.0.45.2
Connection Speed: .9 mbps (speedtest.net), Wimax Modem
Firewall / Virus Protection/ Ad-Blockers: None
Location: Philippines

Hi,
Something has changed. I can no longer watch more than a half minute or so of an episode without constant buffering.
This has been going on for a while now.
It used to play fine.
I do believe that there used to be a manual connection selection that you could use if the feed was buffering. What happened to that?
Also, isn't it possible to allow the file to preload, sort of like when you pause youtube?
I hope that you can resolve this, as I am in no position to watch any recent episodes otherwise.

OS: Windows Vista Premium SP2
Browser(s): Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7
Flash Version: 10,0,45,2
Connection Speed: DSL
Firewall / Virus Protection: Windows Firewall
Location: Denmark

When I try watch any episode it just shows the intro start and goes black screen. It doesn't show any time bar either. It just plays the sound and shows the intro and then nothing. I've been able to watch South Park episodes here before, I watch an episode each day so I really don't know why this is happening. Tried with Internet Explorer but that didn't work either. I'm able to watch clips but not full episodes. Seems like the avatar creator has a bug too, can't pick an outfit for it, but that's another problem...

*Edit* Just noticed that this problem has nothing to do with www.southparkstudios.com since I'm only able to access www.southparkstudios.dk which means It's probably not the same server It's running on. So what do I have to do now? I can't find anywhere to contact them.

Just wondering what would happen if you update your browser to Safari 4.0.5, which is the current version? It is a free upgrade.

Also, I see you're still using Leopard. In the U.S., the upgrade to Snow Leopard was only $29 or $39 U.S.D. (I forgot the price). With all the upgrades on this board, (I notice you do have the latest Adobe Flash installed), try Safari 4.0.5 first, and then if that doesn't solve your problem why not consider Snow Leopard and see if that helps. Hopefully that fixes it for you. If not, post what happened, and someone more qualified than myself I'm sure will try to help you out some more.

Good luck

i have had the exact same problem for a few days now and im in the netherlands

I am also experiencing this problem. I am from the netherlands aswell. It's the same as the Topicstarter, I just see our lead guys waving. Sometimes there is a commercial which I can watch, but the player never starts it seems. Hope there is an easy solution

I'm from Denmark as well and i'm having the exact same problem.
I can't help but notice the problem started at the exact same time the buttom scroll function started working properly.
A coinci'dink? Or did they perhaps fix one problem and caused another?
Whatever the problem is I hope they fix it soon. I'm getting withdrawal symptoms.

Hi. I don't know if there are multiple servers all over the world in the countries where Southparkstudios is offered, but I'm pretty sure ALL of the content comes from the same place and same server in the Los Angeles Area. Sounds to me as if it is a contractual thing with International Law. That's my guess. I really don't know, though. Someone more qualified than me will have to answer you all. Sorry to hear about this. I hope this issue is resolved soon for you all. Good luck

nall?